124 pages : 28 cm

"This volume is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a very popular tool for pastors, teachers, and students for the study of the Old Testament ... Charts provide visual organization that is ideal for teaching, learning, and review. Facts, connections, parallels, and contrasts can be grasped easily at a glance. This revised edition of Chronological and Background Charts of the Old Testament includes 42 new charts and 18 revised charts. The charts cover historical, literary, archaeological, and theological aspects of the Old Testament, its background, and biblical studies ..."--Publisher description

Includes index

Pt. 1: Sections of the canon -- The holy Scriptures -- Genealogies from Adam to Abraham -- Time periods of the flood -- Chronology of the patriarchs -- Patriarchal family tree -- Theophanies in Genesis -- Sons of Jacob -- Jewish calendar -- Jewish special days -- Laws of the Old Testament -- Sacrificial system -- Clean and unclean animals -- The Decalogue and Deuteronomy -- Parallels between the law and wisdom -- Chronology of the judges -- Correlation of Samuel/Kings and Chronicles -- Family and ancestry of David -- Narrative emphasis in the history of the united monarchy -- The kings of Judah -- The kings of Israel -- The dynasties of the northern kingdom -- Succession and intermarriage among the 9th-century royal houses -- Source books mentioned in Scripture -- Returns from exile -- Chronological sequence in the Book of Ezra -- Battles in the wilderness -- Battles of Joshua's conquest -- Battles of the Judges period -- Wars of Saul -- Establishment of the Davidic empire -- Military conflicts of Israel -- Military conflicts of Judah -- Major Neo-Assyrian campaigns in Syro-Palestine -- Psalm types/types of Hebrew parallelism -- Classification of Psalms -- Psalms : a cantata of the Davidic covenant -- Function of the prophets/chronology of the prophets -- Message and fulfillment -- Categories of prophetic oracle -- Subjects of aftermath oracles -- The messages of the pre-exilic minor prophets -- The parallel structure of the Book of Daniel -- The structure of Zechariah 1-7 -- Pt. 2: Ancient Near East -- Comparative ancient Near Eastern chronology -- Egyptian chronology -- Early Mesopotamian history -- Highlights of Assyrian history -- Kings of Assyria -- Assyrian foreign policy -- Kings of Israel and Judah in Assyrian royal inscriptions -- Highlights of Babylonian history -- Kings of Syria/kings of Neo-Babylonia -- Chronology of the Persian period -- Israel's neighbors -- The nations in prophecy -- Intertestamental chronology -- Major inscriptions of Old Testament significance -- Major tablets of Old Testament significance -- Archaeological periods -- Development of warfare -- Comparison of biblical and Babylonian creation accounts -- Comparison of biblical and Babylonian flood accounts -- Ancient Near Eastern literature containing parallels to the Old Testament -- Ancient Near Eastern deities -- Key theological distinctions between Israel and her neighbors -- The plagues and the gods of Egypt -- Treaty format and biblical covenants -- Legal texts of the ancient Near East -- Pt. 3: Bible study -- The Semitic language family -- Versions and manuscripts of the Old Testament -- Textual criticism : types of errors -- Old Testament textual development -- Principles for word studies -- Forms of critical analysis -- Creation theories -- Identity of the "sons of God" -- Comparison of chronological systems -- Extent of the flood I & II -- Date of the exodus I & II -- Views concerning the fate of Jephthah's daughter -- Views concerning Daniel's four empires -- Views concerning Daniel's 70 weeks -- Messiah in the Old Testament -- The angel of the Lord in the Old Testament -- Satan in the Old Testament -- The ark of the covenant -- "And the Spirit of the Lord came upon them" -- Dreams and visions -- The people of God and the covenant -- Pt. 4: Miscellaneous -- Distances between Old Testament cities -- Old Testament weights and measures -- Rabbinic writings

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